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  • Biogas Code of Practice Consultation Workshops

    APL has developed a risk based Code of Practice for On-farm Biogas Production and Use (Piggeries) in response to growing interest in Biogas technology from Australian pig producers.  APL, through a previous project identified that there was a lot of …

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  • 2015-2020 Strategic Plan Consultation

    The APL 2015–2020 Strategic Plan consultation process continues with all meetings across the country now completed. To all of those producers who attended meetings, APL thanks you for your contributions so far. APL would like to offer all producers that have …

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  • Corrective Statement

    Australian Pork Limited (APL) issued Media Releases on 11 April and 19 December 2012 concerning the progress of the Australian pork industry’s initiative to move away from the use of sow stalls by 2017. APL made statements in those Releases …

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  • Notice of AGM and Annual Conference

    The APL Annual Conference and Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held at the Marriott Hotel, cnr Exhibition and Lonsdale Streets, Melbourne on Thursday 21 November 2012. The Annual Conference will commence at 9.00am and the AGM will commence at 1.00pm. For …

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Complete Research Reports

Item Details

Establishing Energy Usage on Australian Piggeries to Enable Implementation of Energy Reduction Strategies

75 Pages
6 Jan 2015
Author(s): FSA Consulting

This industry-funded project involved the collection and detailed analysis of piggery energy data, with an emphasis on monitoring direct electricity consumption.  Data presented in this project aims to increase awareness of energy efficiency through the identification of energy hotspots within piggeries, and practical opportunities to reduce energy use.  The energy use efficiency of the piggeries examined was analysed in detail.  Improving the energy efficiency of pork producers is a key priority of Australian Pork Limited (APL).

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